Organized by Mark Armijo McKnight
Felipe Baeza
Adi Blaustein Rejtö
Cameron
Ursula Reuter Christiansen
Dorothy Cross
Geoffrey Hendricks
Mark Armijo McKnight
Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya
Erin Jane Nelson
Sarah M. Rodriguez
Frederick Sommer
Willa Wasserman
June 28 - August 2, 2024
Opening Reception : June 28, 2024 6-8 pm
An intergenerational group show that explores the natural world as an arena for dreaming, catharsis, eros, interspecies companionship, respite, and mythmaking in the face of the turmoil of our current moment.
Installation View. Left to right: Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, Mark Armijo McKnight, Felipe Baeza, Sarah Rodriguez, Erin Jane Nelson
Installation View. Left to right: Erin Jane Nelson, Sarah Rodriguez, Cameron, Geoffrey Hendricks
Installation View. Left to right: Cameron, Sarah Rodriguez, Geoffrey Hendricks
Installation View. Left to right: Mark Armijo McKnight, Felipe Baeza
Installation View. Left to right: Mark Armijo McKnight, Dorothy Cross, Willa Wasserman
Installation View. Left to right: Willa Wasserman, Ursula Reuter Christiansen
Installation View. Left to right: Mark Armijo McKnight, Dorothy Cross
Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, Two Leopard Slugs Mating, Welding wire, straw hat sombrero, circuit boards from El Paso desert, twine, silicone horn tips,cow pelt, 41 × 14 × 11 inches, 2024
Sarah Rodriguez, Nocturnal Anatomy, cast, carved, and welded aluminum, 27 ½ × 32 × 12 inches, 2023
Willa Wasserman, Lasionycteris noctivagans (silver-haired bat), silverpoint on linen, 3 ½ × 5 ⅝ inches, 2024
Cameron, Untitled (from the Fossil series), gouache on paper, 12 × 18 ¾ inches, n.d.
Adi Blaustein Rejtö, The Joy of Life, foraged pigments, lead carbonate, lapis lazuli, cadmium yellow, walnut oil, graphite, charcoal, and traditional gesso on rabbit skin glue sized wood, 36 x 48 inches, 2023
Adi Blaustein Rejtö, The Triumph of Temptation, foraged pigments, lead carbonate, lapis lazuli, walnut oil, graphite, charcoal, and traditional gesso on rabbit skin glue sized wood, 30 x 40 inches, 2023
Mark Armijo McKnight, The Little Breeders, 30 x 24 inches, Gelatin silver print, 2023
Dorothy Cross, Family, Variable dimensions, cast bronze, 2005
Felipe Baeza, To be flesh and possibility, ink, acrylic, glitter, varnish, watercolor, and cut paper on panel, 14 ⅞ × 11 ⅞ inches, 2024
Frederick Sommer, Jack Rabbit, Gelatin silver print, 7 ⅜ × 9 ⅜ inches, 1939
Geoffrey Hendricks, Sky Shovel, acrylic and stones on shovel, 36 × 9 inches, 1968
Erin Jane Nelson, Jizo Feeler, pigment print on organza and cotton, various fabrics, aluminum, debris, and styrofoam amaranth, 88 × 75 inches, 2017
Mark Armijo McKnight, Viscera, Gelatin silver print, 60 x 40 inches, 2024
Mark Armijo McKnight (b. Los Angeles, CA) is an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally and written about in The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, Interview, GQ, Aperture, Art in America, Frieze, Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Mousse, and BOMB, among others. His work is held in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ICA Miami, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Henry Art Gallery, and the Columbus Museum of Art.
His first monograph, Heaven Is a Prison, was published in 2020, followed by Posthume, published by TBW Books in 2025. Armijo McKnight is a Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of the 2019 Aperture Portfolio Prize, the 2020 Light Work Photo Book Award, a 2020 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant, and a 2023–24 Guggenheim Fellowship.
He is Assistant Professor of Expanded Photography at Rutgers University.
Represented by Klaus von Nichtssagend (New York)
Posthume (2025) published by TBW Books
Heaven is a Prison (2020) published by Loose Joints